1. Long a and Long e Spellings:
Destiny’s Gift
By Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Illustrated by Adjoa J. Burrowes
Genre: Realistic Fiction – has characters and events that are like those in real life.
Skills:
Understanding Characters – Character’s words and actions reveal their feelings (emotions), traits (qualities), and motivations (reasons).
Story Message – Authors use key details about how characters deal with a problem to give readers a message.
Analyze/Evaluate – When you think about how the characters speak and act with each other to get a better understanding of the characters, you analyze. When you decide what a character is like as a person, you evaluate.
Compound Sentences – A sentence that tells two complete thoughts.
Spelling
Long a and Long e Spellings:
lay today treat screen yesterday
real dream afraid speed explain
trail seem leave paint someday
sweet tea bait please underneath
Lesson Vocabulary:
afford – to be able to pay (Kids collect toys for families who can’t afford to buy them.)
customers – people who buy something at a store (Some store owners ask customers to donate a dollar to charity.)
contacted – got in touch with someone (This girl contacted neighbors by phone and asked for help with projects.)
raise – to collect (Many groups have bake sales to raise needed money.)
earn – to get something by working (These students are trying to earn enough to help buy new library books.)
figure – to work out by thinking (Many schools figure out ways to reuse paper instead of throwing it away.)
block – the section of a street between two other streets (Neighbors keep this city block pleasant by having a cleanup day each month.)
spreading – stretching something out (With floodwaters spreading, people had to pitch in and stack sandbags.